Method of and apparatus for marking patterns



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CHAP] METHOD OP AND AP ATUS P A ARKING PATTERNS. No. 519,927. Patented May 15,1894.

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LOUISE SOHAEFER, OF ONEIDA, NEW YORK.

METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR MARKING PATTERNS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 519,927, dated May 15, 1894.

Application filed October 2l, 1893. Serial No. 488.766. (No model.)

To au whom it may concer-7e:

Be it known that I, LOUISE SCHAEEER, of Oneida, in the county of Madison and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Marking Patterns, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Myinvention relates to improvements in a method of and apparatus for marking patterns on fabrics.

The object of my invention is to produce a very cheap and simple apparatus and provide an extremely convenient method, by which patterns may be readily marked on fabrics, the apparatus and method being especially applicable for use in marking patterns on dress goods and other fabrics intended to be made into garments.

To these ends my invention consists of a method and apparatus, which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a broken perspective View illustrating the application of the method and apparatus to a fabric on which a pattern is to be marked. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through the apparatus, fabric and pattern. Fig. 3 is a broken enlarged plan view of the marking board forming a part of the apparatus; and Fig. 4 is a cross section of the board.

In carrying out my invention I use a marking board 10, which may be of any suitable material, and which has on its upper surface an open fabric 11, preferably of gauze, and the meshes of the fabric are filled with a coloring pigment 12 such for instance as carpenters chalk, sufficient adhesive material being mingled with the pigment to hold the latter securely to the board except when a portion of itis loosened by the marking wheel, as hereinafter described. A second marker 13,which is of flexible material and of an open structure, is also used in connection with the marking board, the marker 13 being also filled with a coloring pigment, as above described; this marker 13 is only used, however, when the fabric is to be doubled and then marked, and the object of it is to provide means for marking both layers of the fabric simultaneously. The marking board 10 may be laid upon any suitable support, such as a table as illustrated, the fabric 14, which is usually doubled, is laid upon the marking board, the top marker 13 is spread upon the upper layer of the fabric, as shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 2, and the pattern 15 islaid on the marker 13. The spur wheel 16, which is of theusnal kind, and has the customary handle 17 is then run around the edge of the pattern 15, sufficient pressure being applied to the wheel to force its spurs down through the fabric and into the lower marking board. The wheel as it runs will carry downward through the top markersuflicient pigment to leave a color line on the top layer of the fabric 14., which line will of course `represent the outline of the pattern 15, and the spurs of the wheel bring np sufficient pigment from the lnarkin g board 10 to leave a similar color line on the lower layer of the fabric 14, and thus both layers of fabric are quickly and similarly marked. If but one layer of fabric is used, either the marking board 10 or marker 13 may be applied alone.

It will be observed that the apparatus is extremely simple and` may be used by any ordinary dress maker, cloak maker or tailor.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The herein-described method of marking patterns on fabric, which consists in providing a marking board having a coloring pigment held on its surface, doubling the fabric and spreading it on the board, laying a flexible marker on the top layer of the fabric, the marker being also impregnated with a coloring pigment, placing the pattern on the marker, and then running a spnr wheel around the edge of the pattern.

2. In an apparatus of the kind described, the marking board having an open fabric fastened to its surface, and a coloring pigment held between the meshes of the fabric, subn stantially as described.

3. The herein-described marker, compris-Y adapted to be freed from the boord by the ing a flexible loosely Woven fabric impregrunning of a. spur Wheel across 1t, substan- IO nated with a coloring pigment, the pigment tially as described.

being held in a. free'state in the fabric, sub- LOUISE SCHAEFER, stantially as described.

4. The herein-described markingboerd having on its surface a coloring pigment, the pigment loeing fastened to the board and being Witnesses:

GERTRUDE W. MORSE, ADAM W. NEIO. 

